sawtooth-simplewallet

A simple sawtooth "simplewallet" transaction family example (processor + client)

Introduction

This is a minimal example of a sawtooth 1.0 application. This example demonstrates, a common usecase, where a customer deposits/withdraws/transfers money from a wallet account.

A customer can:

1. deposit money into his/her wallet account
2. withdraw money from his/her wallet account
3. check the balance in the wallet account
4. transfer money from his/her wallet account to another

The customer is identified by a customer name and a corresponding public key. The wallet account balance, is stored at an address, derived from SHA 512 hash of customer's public key and the simplewallet transaction family namespace.

Components

The application is built in two parts:

1. The client application written in Python, written in two parts: _client.py file representing the backend stuff and the _cli.py representing the frontend stuff. The example is built by using the setup.py file located in one directory level up.

2. The Transaction Processor is written in C++11 using c++-sawtooth-sdk. It comes with its CMake files for build. The Transaction Processor is also available in Java and Python.

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JAVASCRIPT CLIENT NOTE

The client is also written in Javascript using node.js. The app.js is the main javascript file from where the main function call occurs. Handlebars are used for templating, client related CSS and JavaScript code is written in public folder and server related files are written in router/ folder. Running the default docker-compose.yaml file or the simplewallet-build-client-js.yaml launches the client, which is accessible at localhost:3000.

How to use the simplewallet UI:

1. Build and start the Docker containers:

docker-compose -f simplewallet-build-client-js.yaml up

2. Open bash shell in simplewallet-client-js container:

docker exec -it simplewallet-client-js bash

3. Create user accounts for jack and jill:

sawtooth keygen jack && sawtooth keygen jill

4. Open two new browser tabs and go to http://localhost:3000 on each tab

5. Login in one tab as jack and in other as jill

6. Start with an initial deposit for each user - jack and jill via the Deposit tab in the UI homepage

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Pre-requisites

This example uses docker-compose and Docker containers. If you do not have these installed please follow the instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/install/

NOTE: The preferred OS environment is Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS x64. Although, other linux distributions which support Docker should work. If you have Windows please install Docker Toolbox for Windows or Docker for Windows, based on your OS version.

NOTE: The minimum version of Docker Engine necessary is 17.03.0-ce. Linux distributions often ship with older versions of Docker.

Here's a gist detailing steps on installing docker and docker-compose.

Working with proxies

For linux:

Follow the instructions in sawtooth-core/BUILD.md

For pre-Windows 10 versions (using Docker Toolbox for Windows):

Start the virtualbox host with:

   docker-machine rm default
   docker-machine create -d virtualbox --engine-env HTTP_PROXY=<your_http_proxy> --engine-env HTTPS_PROXY=<your_https_proxy> --engine-env NO_PROXY=<your_no_proxy> default

When you start Kitematic it will initially show an error, but just click "Use Virtualbox".

For Windows 10 (using Docker for Windows):

Right click on the Docker icon in the notification area, select Settings. Then click Proxies. Select "Manual proxy configuration" and enter the following then click Apply.

    Web Server (HTTP):         <your_http_proxy>
    Secure Web Server (HTTPS): <your_https_proxy>
    Bypass for these hosts:    <your_no_proxy>,localhost,127.0.0.1

Usage

Start the pre-built Docker containers in docker-compose.yaml file, located in sawtooth-simplewallet directory:

cd sawtooth-simplewallet
docker-compose up

At this point all the containers should be running.

To launch the client, you could do this:

docker exec -it simplewallet-client bash

You can locate the right Docker client container name using docker ps.

Sample command usage:

#Create a wallet
sawtooth keygen jack #This creates the public/private keys for Jack, a pre-requisite for the following commands

simplewallet deposit 100 jack #This adds 100 units to Jack's account

simplewallet withdraw 50 jack #Withdraws 50 units from Jack's account

simplewallet balance jack #Displays the balance left in Jack's account

#Create 2nd wallet
sawtooth keygen jill #This creates the public/private keys for Jill, a pre-requisite for the following commands

simplewallet deposit 100 jill #This adds 100 units to Jill's account

simplewallet balance jill #Displays the balance left in Jill's account

simplewallet transfer 25 jack jill #Transfer 25 units money from Jack to Jill

simplewallet balance jack #Displays the balance left in Jack's account

simplewallet balance jill #Displays the balance left in Jill's account

Building containers

To build TP code of your preferred language and run the simplewallet example:

docker-compose -f simplewallet-build-tp-<your_prog_language>.yaml up --build

where, <your_prog_language> should be replaced with either cxx, java, or py

Building and running on OS(without dockers)

To run sawtooth-simplewallet without dockers, we'll have to use a Ubuntu 16.04 OS installation and compile simplewallet from sources. Below is a sample procedure for python TP/client:

1. Install sawtooth on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x64 machine and setup genesis block. Refer sawtooth app developer's guide here

   • Start the validator, rest-api and settings-tp in separate, new consoles:

     sudo -u sawtooth sawtooth-validator -vv
     sudo -u sawtooth sawtooth-rest-api -vvv
     sudo -u sawtooth settings-tp -vv

2. In a new console, clone the simplewallet repo:

   git clone https://github.com/askmish/sawtooth-simplewallet.git

3. cd sawtooth-simplewallet

4. Modify two files:

   • Create a new branch to start making changes git checkout -b nodocker
   • Edit file pyclient/wallet/simplewallet_cli.py and change rest-api:8008 to localhost:8008
   • Edit file pyprocessor/processor/simplewallet_tp.py and change validator:4004 to localhost:4004

5. Setup the simplewallet-tp.

   • Follow the pyprocessor/Dockerfile
   • Install all the dependencies in the first RUN line in the Dockerfile
   • Run the simplewallet-tp with ./pyprocessor/simplewallet-tp

6. Setup the client. Open a new console.

   • Follow the pyclient/Dockerfile
   • Install all the dependencies in the first RUN line in the pyclient/Dockerfile
   • Run the simplewallet client with ./pyclient/simplewallet command. Refer Usage section above, for examples.

NOTE If you prefer using the simplewallet client without directory prefix, you could add the pyclient directory to your PATH environment variable, as shown below:

export PATH = $PATH:<absolute-path-to-your-cloned-sawtooth-simplewallet-dir>/pyclient"

Video Presentation

A video presentation on YouTube uses this application as an example. It is "Hyperledger Sawtooth Application Development using 'SimpleWallet'". It is at https://youtu.be/4VUaZkwJdCc

Contributing

Currently, we're looking for contributions and PRs for following:

• TP using .NET sawtooth SDK
• Client apps in GO, .NET, C++, and Java

More ways you can contribute:

• Bugs or issues: Report problems or defects found when working with simplewallet
• Core features and enhancements: Provide expanded capabilities or optimizations
• Documentation: Improve existing documentation or create new information
• Tests: Add functional, performance, or scalability tests

License

This example and Hyperledger Sawtooth software are licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 software license.